Do you offer any form of WCF or webservice generation for example.

Certain unnamed competitors of yours will allow you to create a Web Service provider which exposes your Data API. This is very beneficial if you need to use the DAL in a client server application, or if you just need to expose your data to a 3rd party

Do you offer anything simular?

Thanks

IMHO, in a client server scenario, you should expose business APIs not the entire DAL. That's what the server is for. Otherwise you would have used the DAL at the client and bridged the server.

You can find a WCF example in the download section of our web site, which give you an example how to create a WCF client to transfer LLBLGen objects over the wire. But you will create the service methods and define what you need to send and when.

Also if you are interested in .NET RIA services, you may need to look at this thread (4 pages): http://www.llblgen.com/tinyforum/Messages.aspx?ThreadID=16377 LLBLGen's support for .NET RIA services is released (beta), a coupleof weeks and the release should be out there, with v.3.1.

I agree with Walaa. Generating a custom WCF service is IMHO not that great, unless you use OData or WCF RIA services (which actually puts you onto writing the service api manually anyway).

If you're after OData support, we'll add that in v3.2. There's preliminary support for OData through templates written by some customers, but it's not 100% complete. OData is IMHO the closest thing that comes near a generated service API.

Thank you both for your feedback, i'm been reviewing odata thus the reason for my delay.

The problem i have is i need to write an api now? do you have any realistic eta's on 3.2? and if i couldnt wait for the release what would you advice someone in a situation like me do based on your experiance?

We don't have a release date on a version after the one we haven't released yet. OData

You could look at this thread: http://www.llblgen.com/tinyforum/Messages.aspx?ThreadID=14916